20. CROCUS BOISSIERI. 



Section: Involucrati (Herbert): Odontostigma; vernal (Baker). 



Crocus Boissieri, new species, G. Maw, Exsic. Herb. Boissier; Tchihatcheff, Cilicia, 1854; G. Maw, Synops. 

 Genus Crocus in Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. xvi, p. 304; in The Garden, vol. xxi, No. 532, p. 67; 

 and Hist. Crocus in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot, vol. xix, p. 272; Boiss. Fl. Orient., vol. v, part 1, p. 99. 



Cormus ignotus. Vaginae dimidio spathae aequantes. Folia circiter 4, 4 poll. (0.100 metr.) longa ad 

 florationem, floribus subaequantia, glabra, i poll. (0.0042 metr.) lata, carina ferme dimidio latitudinis 

 laminae aequalis, marginibus laminae revolutis, in canaliculis lateralibus costis tribus depressis. Spatha 

 basalis brevis, vix ad ovarium extensa. Spatha vera monophylla, quam faux J poll. (0.019 metr.) 

 brevior. Perianthium: tubus et faux alba, probabililer glabra; segmenta alba, ovato-lanceolata, 

 angustissima, circiter i~ poll. (0.032 metr.) longa, i (0.0063 metr.) lata. Antherae pallide aurantiacae, 

 vix \ poll. (0.0084 metr.) longae; filamenta antheras duplicantia. Stylus ad basin antherarum fissus. 

 Stigmata expansa, fimbriata, apicibus antherarum aequantia. 



Corm unknown. 



Sheathing Leaves about three, from half an inch (0.013 metre) to an inch and a half (0.038 metre) in 

 length, and about half the height of the proper spathe. 



Proper Leaves about four, four inches (0.100 metre) long at the flowering-time, and reaching nearly to 

 the summit of the flowers, one-sixth of an inch (0.0042 metre) broad, glabrous; the keel nearly 

 half the width of the blade, margins of blade revolute, the lateral channels containing three low 

 ridges. 



Basal Spathe about an inch and a quarter (0.032 metre) in length. Proper Spathe monophyllous, much 

 exceeding the sheathing leaves, and reaching to within three-quarters of an inch (0.019 metre) of 

 the throat. 



Perianth: Tube about two and a half inches (0.063 metre) long from the ovary to the throat. Throat 

 unbearded (?), white. Segments ovato-lanceolate, very narrow, about an inch and a quarter (0.032 

 metre) long, and a quarter of an inch (0.0063 metre) broad, pure white. 



Stamens three-quarters of an inch (0.019 metre) high, equalling the pistil. Anthers orange, about a 

 quarter of an inch (0.0063 metre) in length, and half the length of the glabrous filament. 



Pistil three-quarters of an inch (0.019 metre) high from the throat; the Style dividing at the level of 

 the base of the anthers, and produced into broad, sub-entire, erect, orange stigmata, reaching to 

 the level of the summit of the anthers. 



Seape at the flowering-time about an inch (0.025 metre) high. 



Capsule and Seed unknown. 



